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have ever seen, and I can not admit for a moment that the latter 
is a form of it. 
The above are the principal trees in the range of which I was 
specially interested. The following herbs and shrubs either rare 
in or absent from the Washington flora were noted and may con- 
vey some idea of the unceasing interest and pleasure which a bot- 
anist must derive from a journey through that part of the south. 
Rubus cuneatus, rare near Washington, steadily increases 
in abundance from the Accotink to the most southerly point 
casions our party halted to enjoy a feast of them from the bushes. 
In the valley of the Nottaway river this species bas the habit of 
the northern blackberry and forms dense brambles along the 
fences, some of the bushes growing to the height of six or eight 
Wankapin (if this is the correct spelling), the first vowel having 
the same sound as in want. As it is the Water Chinquapin of 
other localities one might surmise that this name was a contrac- 
tion of the latter, but no one knows it by this more accepted 
name and it is more probable that Wankapin is an original In- 
dian name. This plant, so abundant in the tidal estuaries of the 
Potomac, was not seen in those of the James or Appomattox, 
nor did we meet with it at any inland point on our route. : 
Liatris squarrosa was found at Brooke Station below Aquia 
creek and numerous points further south. 
Helianthus atrorubens occurs some distance north of the Rap- 
pahannock and from this point to the Roanoake it was common, 
often abundant . : 
hragmites communis was seen on the Tapony, six miles 
above Bowling Green, also near Chester, twelve miles south of 
Richmond, aad again on the Meherrin See 
Eupatorium foeniculaceum first appeared in the vicinity of 
Stafford Court House and became a constant companion through- 
out southern Virginia. . 
Vitis vulpina, of which a single vine was seen near Mount 
